Educational Undergrowth

Contributors to this special issue explore education as an ontological and speculative practice within an ecology shaped by coloniality. On the one hand, this ecological concept allows for critical accounts of schools and universities focusing on the uneven distribution of resources, where some people, projects, and practices grow through biopolitical investment while others are defunded, marginalized, or excluded. On the other hand, the concept pushes us to attend carefully to the practices—queer, decolonial, abolitionist, bewildering—that flourish in the weedy undergrowth of the colonial ecology.

Contributors: Bennett Carpenter, Laura Goldblatt, Jaime Acosta Gonzalez, Lenora Hanson, David A. Maldonado, Erica R. Meiners, Eli Meyerhoff, Julietta Singh, Nathan Snaza, Theresa Stewart-Ambo, K. Wayne Yang